CROSS-DISCIPLINARY LANGUAGE PROGRAM
The Foreign Languages faculty conduct a cross-disciplinary language program in Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. This program's purpose is to reach out and provide sophisticated upper-level foreign language education to students from all fields so that they may become literate in a language other than English.
The program pays heed to a student's individual ambitions by incorporating a foreign language component into regularly offered courses in his/her field. More specifically, the language faculty teach tutorials in which significant works or passages are read and discussed in the foreign language. Thus, for example, a philosophy major with a two-year proficiency in German, will read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy in both English (in "Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy") and in German (in the concurrent tutorial).
To create tutorials as described above, contact the appropriate Language Faculty as noted below:
Arabic |
Hezi Brosh |
Chinese |
Li-Hua Ying |
French |
Odile Chilton or Marina van Zuylen |
German |
Franz Kempf |
Greek / Latin |
William Mullen or James Romm |
Hebrew |
Hezi Brosh |
Italian |
Maria Nicoletti or Carlo Zei |
Japanese |
Gustav Heldt |
Spanish |
Melanie Nicholson |
Russian |
Marina Kostalevsky or Lindsay Watton |